Bug#520927: More information needed about this dump corruption bug

2010-03-17 Thread Jenny Barna
On Tue, 16 Mar 2010, Christian Perrier wrote: tags 520927 moreinfo thanks Hello Jenny, Back in March 2009, you reported a bug about file corruption when dumping filesystems. Bdale Garbee, who maintains the relevant package asked the upstream author (Stelian Pop) whether that rings some bells

Bug#520927: Some files corrupted from remote dump/restore reproducably

2009-06-19 Thread Jenny Barna
It appears to be using /usr/sbin/rmt-dump Since I wrote that in March I switched to using tar for my two remote machines whereas I stayed with dump for the machine that has the tape system on it. That's interesting. So are you using rmt with tar, or some other transport mechanism? If you're

Bug#520927: Some files corrupted from remote dump/restore reproducably

2009-06-19 Thread Jenny Barna
On Thu, 18 Jun 2009, Bdale Garbee wrote: On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 17:14 +, Jenny Barna wrote: Package: dump Version: 0.4b41-5+b1 Severity: critical Justification: causes serious data loss I set up dump using a SLT24 tape system and tested local and remote dump and restore with restoring

Bug#520927: Some files corrupted from remote dump/restore reproducably

2009-03-23 Thread Jenny Barna
Package: dump Version: 0.4b41-5+b1 Severity: critical Justification: causes serious data loss I set up dump using a SLT24 tape system and tested local and remote dump and restore with restoring single files OK. When I restored a user's lost file I discovered I had got back text from another (unre

Bug#513479: gdm: desktop does not appear after giving login credentials after upgrade 090129

2009-01-29 Thread Jenny Barna
Thanks for sending detailed information, it helps a lot. Here is the problem. You don’t have a session manager installed, so the X11 startup scripts choose to run x-window-manager. ii metacity [x-window-man 1:2.22.0-2A lightweight GTK2 based Window Ma ii twm [x-window-manager] 1:1.0.

Bug#513479: gdm: desktop does not appear after giving login credentials after upgrade 090129

2009-01-29 Thread Jenny Barna
Package: gdm Version: 2.20.7-4 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Today I did an apt-get update and apt-get upgrade which appeared to hang. I rebooted and I can login via ssh but not via the console. It's a Sun with ILOM and if the console is redirected one gets the same bro